I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am? — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life?… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out.” — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
